Dame Anne Salmond is Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland and author of books including Hui: A Study of Maori Ceremonial Gatherings (A. H. and A. W. Reed, 1975); Amiria: The Life Story of a Maori Woman (A. H. and A. W.

Reed, 1976); Eruera: The Teachings of a Maori Elder (Oxford University Press, 1980); Two Worlds: First Meetings between Maori and Europeans, 1642-1772 (Viking Press, University of Hawai'i Press, 1991); Between Worlds: Early Exchanges between Maori and Europeans, 1773-1815 (Viking Press, University of Hawai'i Press, 1997); The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas (Penguin, Yale University Press, 2003); Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti (University of California Press, Penguin, 2009); Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas (University of California Press, Penguin, 2011) and Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds (Auckland University Press, 2017).Among many honours and awards, she is an International Member of the American Philosophical Society, a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. In 2013 she became New Zealander of the Year and winner of the Rutherford Medal from the Royal Society of New Zealand. She received the CBE in 1988, was made Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1995, and in 202o she became a member of the Order of New Zealand (ONZ).